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The Jewel Trader of Pegu

The Jewel Trader of Pegu( )
Author: Hantover, Jeffrey
ISBN:978-0-06-165567-8
Publication Date:Jan 2008
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Book Format:Ebook
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A melancholy young Jewish gem merchant, Abraham, born in Venice, has lived his life behind the ghetto walls of that damp, oppressive city. He has lost a wife and the son whose difficult birth killed her. Now there is nothing left for him there.

In the autumn of 1598, Abraham chooses to seek his fortune far from the painful familiarity of Europe and travels halfway across the world to the lush and exotic Burmese kingdom of Pegu. An overpoweringly strange mélange of sodden...
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Pages:256



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